Quality of Research Practice - An interdisciplinary face validity evaluation of a quality model

Autor: Uno Fors, Emelie Fröberg, Gunnar Nilsson, Udo Zander, Pär Mårtensson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
Questionnaires
Sociology of scientific knowledge
Research Validity
Epidemiology
Economics
Research Quality Assessment
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Studies
Multidisciplinary approach
Surveys and Questionnaires
Epidemiological Statistics
Medicine and Health Sciences
Research quality
media_common
Multidisciplinary
05 social sciences
050301 education
Survey research
Middle Aged
Research Assessment
Quality Improvement
Research Personnel
Research Design
Epidemiological Methods and Statistics
Medicine
Female
Psychology
Research Article
Universities
Science Policy
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Science
MEDLINE
Research and Analysis Methods
Research Funding
Health Economics
0502 economics and business
Humans
Quality (business)
Face validity
Medical education
Health economics
Survey Research
Reproducibility of Results
Health Care
0503 education
050203 business & management
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 2, p e0211636 (2019)
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: There are few acknowledged multidisciplinary quality standards for research practice and evaluation. This study evaluates the face validity of a recently developed comprehensive quality model that includes 32 defined concepts based on four main areas (credible, contributory, communicable, and conforming) describing indicators of research practice quality. Responses from 42 senior researchers working within 18 different departments at three major universities showed that the research quality model was–overall–valid. The vast majority believed all concepts in the model to be important, and did not indicate the need for further development. However, some of the sub-concepts were indicated as being slightly less important. Further, there were significant differences concerning ‘communicable’ between disciplines and academic levels, and for ‘conforming’ between genders. Our study indicates that the research quality model proposes the opportunity to move to a more systematic and multidisciplinary approach to research quality improvement, which has implications for how scientific knowledge is obtained.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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